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Human Person P3
Question | Answer |
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• Need for self-actualization, including needs to know and understand, to contemplate, and to create. • this level as spiritual, it is also creative because too many people confine the meaning of the word spiritual to friendship with God. | SPIRITUAL AND CREATIVE NEEDS |
• Is realistic, sees life clearly, and is objective about his or her observations. • Judges people correctly • Has superior perception, is more decisive | MASLOW’S CHARACTERISTICS OF A SELF–ACTUALIZED PERSON |
• It is an act which proceeds from the deliberate free will of man. • It is an act that is deliberately and knowingly performed by one having the use of reason. | HUMAN ACT |
• What is all about and what it means. | KNOWLEDGE |
• To do or leave it undone without coercion or constraint. | FREEDOM |
• Acting or done without compulsion or obligation. • It is done by intention, and not by accident. | VOLUNTARINESS |
ELEMENTS OF HUMAN ACT NOTE ➢ If one element is missing, it is not then a Human Act. | -Knowledge Freedom -Voluntariness |
Visiting a sick man, walking down the street eating apple, scratching a match, the nurse lies to a patient, an act of murder, etc. | ELEMENTS DETERMINING THE MORALITY OF HUMAN ACT ACT ITSELF (OBJECT) |
• Reason for which the act is performed. • Intention of the agent | ELEMENTS DETERMINING THE MORALITY OF HUMAN ACT (PURPOSE) |
a human act are those factors, distinct from the act itself and from the purpose which may affect the morality of the act. • There is an old saying, “circumstances alter cases.” | CIRCUMSTANCES |
➢ An elder brother who puts hot sauce on a cake before giving it to a begging younger brother, so that the younger will not ask for more, and the elder can have the cake all to himself. | CIRCUMTANCES EXAMPLE |
• It is one that is not dependent upon intellect and free will. • It is done by a human person but it is not proper to him as a person because it does not stem from those faculties which are peculiar to man, namely: o Intellect o Free will | Act of Man |
• 2 year old boy wets on his pants • Airplane crashing due to engine tampering or faulty maintenance • Digesting food • Instinctive reaction to some external stimulus | EXAMPLES OF ACT OF MAN |
• There are modifiers of human acts. • If one of these are present, then it is considered as act of man. | . o Ignorance o Passion o Fear o Violence o Habits |
IGNORANCE PASSION FEAR VIOLENCE HABITS - If one of these are present, then it considered as act of man | MODIFIERS OF HUMAN ACTS |
Juan, a young man who grew in the province went to the city for the first time. He crosses the street without a second thought and almost got hit by a car. | IGNORANCE. Since Juan grew up in the province, he has not idea about traffic rules. |
Bea college student.Before the finals exam, Bea's parents failed to send her money for her tuition fee. One of Bea's friends, Michelle, offered her to work as a prostitute for her to earn. Without hesitation, Bea signed up for the job. | a human act. There is knowledge, freedom, and voluntariness. Bea was at the right age with the right mind to decide whether to work as a prostitute or not. |
Mrs. Aquino is a very rich businesswoman. Her only son was kidnapped and the kidnappers asked for P50 million pesos. Mrs. Aquino gave the money right away. | act of man. There is fear present. Mrs. Aquino was afraid of losing her son so she gave the money. |
Martial law was declared. Michael was forced by the soldiers to tell them where the rebels were at gunpoint. Michael told them their hiding place. | an act of man. Violence is present. Michael was forced to tell an information he must have kept. |
Paula had been planning to kill her husband who has a mistress. It almost drove her crazy, thinking of how her husband cheated on her. When the time came, she went to see her husband and pulled the trigger, killing him. | an act of man. There is passion, Paula's desire to have revenge. She did not think about the consequences of her act, like getting jailed |
F. Anthony turn to do the initiation of paddling one of the new ones, Pepe (hitting the back or legs with a huge piece of wood like baseball bat or boat paddle). He hit Pepe so hard that he had hemorrhage that lead to death. | ➢ It is a human act. Anthony has the knowledge that a lot of men died of hazing. He also has freedom and voluntariness to do the act. |